In this guide, we are going to be showing the Elden Ring Coldstorm Cleric build which is an all-game build that can be used from pretty early on into the game, all the way through till endgame and into NG+. It takes place after level 150. So If you’ve been looking for a flail build that does both bleed and cold damage, dealing lots of damage, check this NG+ faith build.

Elden Ring Coldstorm Cleric Build Guide -  Stats, Gears, Talisman, Gameplay Tips & How to Play

The general concept of this build is that we're going to be using the chainlink flail. The reason we're using the chainlink flail is it has very high damage, it has high strength scaling. This weapon is not super hard to get, it drops from the Mad Pumpkin Head enemies, there are a few of these around Lim grave and in the Weeping Peninsula area. So if you want to farm this, it's not very hard to do. And pick up the Stormcaller Ash of War, slap it, that way when you're spinning around and around, you're hitting enemies for a blood loss buildup each swing. And once you eventually set this to the cold infusion, you'll also build up frostbite on them very quickly triggering frostbite and blood loss. And that does a lot of damage with the repeated strikes that you're doing.

There are some advantages to using that cold infusion:

First of all, it causes enemies to flinch a little bit interrupting them, and if you cause them to flinch a little bit and then you hit them with Hemorrhage and that causes them to flinch a little bit, kind of interrupts them, allowing you to keep swinging around more easily. Additionally, you can pair this build with the incantation Fire's Deadly Sin, so that when you're whirling around that you're removing the frostbite status effect and then re-triggering it over and over giving you increase damage significantly.

Coldstorm Cleric Attributes

- Vigor: 50

- Mind: 30

- Endurance: 30

- Strength: 55

- Dexterity: 12

- Intelligence: 16

- Faith: 25

- Arcane: 11

Gears & Equipment for Coldstorm Cleric Build

Besides the Chainlink Flail, we're using the Cuckoo's Greatshield, you'll eventually want to use one early on if you're playing this at the very beginning of the game. Then use the Clawmark Seal which scales with strength and faith since we have a decent amount of strength to this build and some faith. 

- Weapons: Cuckoo Greatshield, Clawmark Seal

- Boots: Scaled Greaves

- Helm: Marais Mask

- Armor: Noble’s Traveling Grab

- Gloves: Scaled Gauntlets 

Talismans for Coldstorm Cleric

- Shard of Alexander

- Millicent’s Prosthesis

- Rotten Winged Sword Insignia

- Curved Sword Talisman

- Dagger Talisman

- Ritual Sword Talisman

Elden Ring Coldstorm Cleric Build Gameplay Tips 

The strategy here is to buff with golden vow when you're fighting tough enemies or bosses to increase your damage, you can use flame grant me strength as well though it's not going to be as effective in this build because if you're going with the cold infusion, you're only going to buff part of your weapon's damage with it, you're not going to buff the whole thing, but it still increases your damage. If you are using the Flask of Wondrous Physick, you're definitely going to want to make sure you have the thorny cracked tear eventually, that also gives you increased damage the more you successively attack, so that factors into storm color as well. So then when you get into your boss fight, you're going to try and look for opening and then start using stormcollar by mashing L2, you can hit it 3 times in a row in succession, doing a ton of hits to the enemy. And that's going to trigger Hemorrhage, it's going to build up your attack power. And the main thing here is having enough poise and waiting for the right opening so that you can just keep swinging. When the frostbite triggers and the Hemorrhage triggers that you can just keep using it and then the enemy just goes down with a boss real fast. If you're using Fire's Deadly Sin, you'll be able to reapply frostbite and since frostbite takes 10% of the target's health off when it triggers, if you keep reapplying this as you're just like right on top of the enemy, their health bar is just going to melt, so you absolutely can do that. It's definitely something you can do to make this build even more effective.